Faith writes:
God is sparing with His signs and wonders, uses them exactly as He thinks necessary for His purposes. One of His purposes is that He wants us to believe His preachers -- His witnesses of all kinds -- and not need visible proof of everything.
I don't see how that's possible. Preachers and their other higher men of faith are still men. They're human and show no signs of being connected to anything of a higher power (and in some cases, as recently has come out in the press more so, do very very very bad things).
Putting all that aside, we have people that you're saying the Bible tells us to hold in high regard and trust. How can we -- as people ourselves -- trust other normal everyday people with the understanding of our entire state of being?
I wouldn't even trust them with my son or daughter (if I had one). That's not saying anything derogatory about the church, mind you, don't take it the wrong way. My point is, I wouldn't trust ANYONE in such high regard just based on their title. To say that we must be blissfully ignorant in our trust in order to show our faith to God, I just can't get behind.
I still have to say if God wants me he needs to show me indisputable evidence. If he is the God I have read about, I don't see any reason why that would be a problem.
Am I way off base?